ABSTRACT
The private view of “truth-value” may be called the subjective criterion of truth—the criterion of immediate personal experience being always subjective. The experience of “truth-value” occurs when the will to the immediate end of cognitive activity, the acceptance of a particular judgment, works in harmony with the ultimate aim of all cognition, the cognitive grasp of philosophers’ world. Truth is the agreement of the expectation of experience expressed or implied in the judgment with the actual or possible realization of such experience under the conditions expressed or implied in the judgment. The demonstrable truth of present judgments is an important contribution to philosophers’ search for truth, but it is a bare beginning. Intellectual value is determined by the cognitive part of the goal of the ultimate will of the finite individual as such—the will to expand continuously its grasp or penetration of the reality in the midst of which it dwells.
